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Counsels for the Church
God has appointed you a work to do for Him which will make you
colaborers with Him. All around you there are souls to save. There
are those whom you can encourage and bless by your earnest efforts.
You may turn souls from sin to righteousness. When you have a sense
of your accountability to God you will feel the need of faithfulness in
prayer and faithfulness in watching against the temptations of Satan.
You will, if you are indeed Christians, feel more like mourning over the
moral darkness in the world than indulging in levity and pride of dress.
You will be among those who are sighing and crying for the abomina-
tions that are done in the land. You will resist the temptations of Satan
to indulge in vanity and in trimmings and ornaments for display. The
mind is narrowed and the intellect dwarfed that can be gratified with
these frivolous things to the neglect of high responsibilities.
The youth in our day may be workers with Christ if they will; and
in working, their faith will strengthen and their knowledge of the divine
will will increase. Every true purpose and every act of right doing
will be recorded in the book of life. I wish I could arouse the youth
to see and feel the sinfulness of living for their own gratification and
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dwarfing their intellects to the cheap, vain things of this life. If they
would elevate their thoughts and words above the frivolous attractions
of this world and make it their aim to glorify God, His peace, which
passeth all understanding, would be theirs
God wants the youth to become men of earnest mind, to be pre-
pared for action in His noble work, and fitted to bear responsibilities.
God calls for young men with hearts uncorrupted, strong and brave,
and determined to fight manfully in the struggle before them, that they
may glorify God, and bless humanity. If the youth would but make the
Bible their study, would but calm their impetuous desires, and listen
to the voice of their Creator and Redeemer, they would not only be at
peace with God, but would find themselves ennobled and elevated.
Carry light wherever you go; show that you have strength of pur-
pose, that you are not a person of indecision, easily swayed by the
persuasions of evil associates. Do not yield a ready assent to the sug-
gestions of those who dishonor God, but rather seek to reform, reclaim,
and rescue souls from evil.
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